1) If this were pilot suicide, why change course at all to ditch in the Indian Ocean? Why not just turn right and dive right into the South China Sea?
2) If not, could the plan have been the Eastern Coast of Africa? Could they have made it that far? And could they have done so without Indian Military radar picking them up?
Considering that India and Pakistan hate each other, it would seem obvious that each country would say "the plane didn't cross our airspace" so as to avoid seeming vulnerable and admitting that something did pass through, but they didn't detect it at the time.
What thoughts do you have?
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Again, please use the original headline at the source.
Twelve thousand feet versus two hundred feet of water?
Did the plane have enough fuel to make it to Yemen or Somalia?
That area of South China Sea/Gulf Thaaland is shallow - only about 40 meter (140 ft)
Too easy to find and recover the wreckage (Think TWA 800
off Long Island)
Ping.
One theory is that they had an in-flight emergency and the turn was to get to the nearest good airport. However, things went from bad to worse and they were left heading past the airport and out into the Indian ocean.
Either that or their military radar follows the Daily Mail.